Russia's invasion and the pandemic overshadowed the climate crisis in the president's speech.
, are clamoring for more attention on the climate crisis, highlighting the dire consequences of a hotter planet. The IPCC reports that 3.6 billion people are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change—and the percentage of people exposed to deadly heat stress, like heat stroke, could rise from 30 percent today to 76 percent by the end of the century.
“We are in an emergency headed for a disaster,” Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, said at a Monday press conference. “Climate change isn’t lurking around the corner waiting to pounce,” she added. “It’s already upon us, raining down blows on billions of people.”
Without immediate action, the consequences of a changing climate will only get worse. Under a global increase of just 1.5°C, children who are 10 and younger could witness a nearly four-fold increase in extreme weather events in their lifetime. Under 2°C of global warming, between 800 million and 3 billion people could experience chronic water scarcity, and up to 18 percent of land species would be at high risk of going extinct by 2100.
“The world we live in today is not going to be the world we live in five years, 10 years, or even 20 years from now,” Debra Roberts, the co-chair of the IPCC report, said at the press conference. “We have to be much more vigilant about our actions.”Popular Science
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